The University of Maryland’s SGA approved a bill Wednesday night to fund a student CPR training initiative. The Student Government Association bill will provide a subsidy so that the first 88 students to register for CPR training through University Recreation and Wellness can pay $20 — which is $50 off the original price, said bill [Read More...]

When Los Angeles County sheriff’s Deputy Erik Nava got the call about a toddler trapped by a motorized gate in La Puente Monday afternoon, he sped off and was there within a minute. He arrived at the apartment complex Main Street and found a man carrying a limp, discolored, lifeless child in his arms. Nava later [Read More...]

ORLANDO, Fla. – Katherine Yombik was on board Spirit Airlines Flight 801 waiting for departure from Detroit Metro Airport Tuesday morning when she heard someone yell out to call 911. A man had collapsed on the plane. Passenger Jeff Kruger said the man, sitting in the seat in front of him, was not moving. Read [Read More...]

Lew Smiley had just arrived at Wilmington’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday with his wife and dog. Five minutes later, he was on the ground helping to perform CPR on a man in a kilt To read the full story, please click here.

Five weeks after going into sudden cardiac arrest, Mitch Trager can talk with the two firefighters who saved his life. On that day, he was at Bailey’s Gym in Jacksonville Beach for what seemed like a normal day of exercise. Read the full story here.

Mike Papale knows he was lucky. Papale, 28, was 17 when he went into cardiac arrest while working at a Wallingford basketball camp. The building had no automated external defibrillator, nor anyone who knew how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Read the full story here.

A husband relied on his Red Cross CPR training to save his wife as she went into cardiac arrest just weeks after she gave birth to their son. When Luke Benrud walked into his kitchen and found his wife, Andrea, laying on the floor, his first thought was that she could have tripped on a step [Read More...]

One in six (16%) people with a deadly inherited heart condition are only diagnosed after having a cardiac arrest, while a fifth (18%) are diagnosed after a sudden death in the family, according to a new survey from The British Heart Foundation. Read the full story here.

When faced with a life and death situation, Joseph Martinez put his acquired skills to work, ultimately saving the life of one of his young students. Martinez, a native of San Diego, is the son of Orlando and Mary Jo Martinez. He graduated from San Diego High School in 2008. After high school, he pursued [Read More...]

TRAVERSE CITY — Ken Yager can’t remember exactly what happened on Jan. 18, just that he’s grateful to the two Traverse City librarians who saved his life. “It’s hard to fully express my gratitude — and the respect and admiration — I have for these ladies,” Yager said simply. Read the full story here.

CANTON, Ga. – Inside Creekland Middle School’s gym, powerful memories, “It’s eerie in here because this is where it happened,” Kerianne Cherry says. She’s talking about her son, Caden Cherry, and that day back in September of 2016 he nearly died here. Read the full story here.

Joe Martinez, a Reagan High School trainer who saved a student’s life in January, was honored on the court at the AT&T Center by the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night. March is National Athletic Training Month, so the Spurs honored the San Antonio trainer that’s made the most headlines this year. Read the full [Read More...]

EVERY time Jeremy Nelson and Rachel Miles hug their son Xavier, they feel like embracing the two men that saved their 12-year-old. Only one in three parents know how to perform CPR but Xavier was lucky enough that two dads with that skill were on hand when he went into cardiac arrest. Read the full [Read More...]

But now, a new emergency protocol that’s being tested can significantly increase survival rates. As CBS2’s Dr. Max Gomez reported, Mark Bradford takes the same walk every day, but one September morning changed his life forever when he collapsed in sudden cardiac arrest. Read the full story here.

MALONE, FLA. – Growing up in Malone, you’re likely to be attracted to the sport of basketball, thanks to it’s numerous state championship wins. Malone School alumni, Chai Baker loved the sport of basketball, but had to give up on it, too soon. Read the full story here.

When the internet went abuzz with the news of the Bollywood Diva’s death, it was learnt that she passed away due to cardiac arrest. However, later the forensic reports said that the actress passed away due to accidental drowning. But till the time the forensic reports were out people were confused about cardiac arrest and [Read More...]

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, SCHUYLKILL COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Sudden cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in the U.S. It targets anyone, anywhere, at any age. But there is a tool which can saves lives, and you don’t need a medical background to use it. Two weeks ago, Les Morgan almost took his last [Read More...]

The survival rate of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is extremely low. When an individual has a cardiac arrest, survival depends on immediately getting cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from someone nearby. According to health experts, performing CPR in the first few minutes of a cardiac arrest can double or triple a person’s chance of survival. Many celebrities [Read More...]

LANCASTER – Darlene Winland said attending a volleyball playoff game between Monroe Central and Fairfield Christian Academy Nov. 1 last year at Lancaster High School saved her life after suffering a heart attack in the stands. Read the full story here.

A Sunday, Feb. 25 event aimed to strike back at a big killer of young athletes: sudden cardiac arrest. More than 200 student-athletes lined SilverLakes Equestrian and Sports Complex in Norco for free heart and health screenings to protect against such an emergency. Organizers said each screening would have cost about $1,500 at a hospital. [Read More...]

Survival from cardiac arrest doubled when a bystander stepped in to apply an automated external defibrillator (AED) before emergency responders arrived, according to new research in the American Heart Association’s journal Circulation. Read the full story here.

Chances are, we all know someone affected by heart disease. About 63,000 Americans die from heart disease each year – that’s one in every four deaths. Of those deaths, sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is responsible for more than 300,000 each year. SCA is unpredictable and is triggered by an electrical malfunction in the heart that [Read More...]

ALBANY, Ore — More athletes die from sudden cardiac arrest than any other cause and most show no symptoms, but a simple heart screening may save your child’s life. Research shows physicals are only 1 percent effective, but adding an electrocardiogram or EKG, can catch up to 94 percent of heart issues. Read the full [Read More...]

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Kathy Knopp loves to be active — with her dog, with her elliptical, with volunteering. When she couldn’t breathe just doing her every day activities, she knew something was wrong. Read the full story here.

Tarpon Springs, Fla.- An off-duty Tarpon Springs firefighter saved a man who went into cardiac arrest at a Publix. It happened on Valentine’s Day at the Publix on US Highway 19 North. A shopper inside the store knew exactly what to do. Read the full story here.

Cardiovascular disease — also known as heart disease — is the leading cause of death in the U.S. Half of all heart disease deaths are caused by a sudden cardiac arrest (SCA), which can happen anytime, anywhere, at any age. Read the full story here.

Craig Cunningham was having none of it. I got cleaned up, at least by my standards. Dress shirt, pleated pants, fancy leather jacket. I hadn’t seen Cunningham since the former Vancouver Giants stalwart forward suffered a cardiac arrest and collapsed on the ice just before an AHL game in Tucson, Ariz., on Nov. 19, 2016. [Read More...]

Kaeyel Moore, an eleventh grader, collapsed during basketball practice Jan. 9. “I was just going around through basketball practice, when about five minutes into practice, all of a sudden, I got light-headed. Everything went black,” Moore said. Read the full story here.

Jeff Utzinger frequently runs through his neighborhood to stay healthy, but ironically it nearly killed him. The Carmel resident suffered a cardiac arrest during a run in June 2017, crumpling to the ground unconscious as his heart failed to pump blood to the rest of his body. Without intervention, death usually happens within minutes. Read [Read More...]

Four years ago, 19-year-old Peyton Walker of Mechanicsburg was getting ready to go to work at a hospital emergency room. She was studying to be a physician’s assistant at Kings College in Wilkes-Barre and was earning clinical hours. Then the unthinkable happened. Read the full story here.

DALLAS – Feb. 19, 2018 – UT Southwestern Medical Center has been certified a Center of Excellence by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCMA) – one of less than 30 Centers of Excellence nationwide and the first certified center in North Texas. Read the full story here.

A shocking little machine saved the life of vintner, purveyor of premium tea and ex-marathon runner Ron Rubin. He now wants to boost the likelihood that one of the devices is nearby should your survival depend on it. Rubin yearns to see automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, placed at each of Sonoma County’s 450 wineries. [Read More...]

WALDWICK — Just weeks before he turned 13, Sean Fisher’s father Jim says he had to give up playfully sparring with his growing son. The multisport athlete was getting strong – a heavy boxing bag would have to take the place of his old man, Jim Fisher decided. But despite a thriving outward appearance and unbeknownst to everyone, Sean had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart condition caused by a [Read More...]

Sports are supposed to be an escape from the worries of this world — paying the rent, relationship troubles and even the unfortunate mortality of man. However, sometimes serious situations creep inside of stadiums and gyms, like the one Friday night at Chatham High. Luckily, a referee is alive today, almost certainly because of fast-acting [Read More...]

Amy Moran kept passing out when she exercised. The scary episodes, at age 20, led to a diagnosis of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, or HCM, a pacemaker, and two open-heart surgeries. The longtime counselor at Kickapoo High School turned 40 this week, a birthday she feared she’d never see. Read the full story here.

WEST CHESTER >> Chester County officials unveiled two new emergency response information pages on their website recently. Visitors to the county website can now monitor fire, EMS and traffic incidents in real time from throughout the county. Read the full story here.

As Shawn Sima sat next to his daughter’s hospital bed, he started to feverishly research. How could this happen? Here she was a happy, healthy 16-year-old cheerleader, and just like that — Lexi Sima fell off a treadmill at a Viera gym and into cardiac arrest. Read the full story here.

On Thursday, May 18 a little past three in the afternoon my life changed. Forever. That morning was just like any other morning. I went to work just like any other day. Went home and enjoyed some leftovers from the night before. I love to eat. Afterwards, I stopped by and visited a couple of [Read More...]

The Nebraska City Recreation Department added an automated external defibrillator to the concession stand at Legion Field ahead of the state baseball tournament that began Saturday. To read the full story, click here.

Many things had to go right for Shelley Wyant to survive a cardiac arrest four years ago. First, she was lucky it didn’t happen 30 minutes earlier. That day in May 2013 was like any other at the health insurance company where she worked in Flint, Michigan. She went to lunch with a girlfriend at [Read More...]

Parents, student athletes and coaches will be impacted by a new law that went into effect this month. It hopes to educate families on the danger of heart conditions not tested for during regular physicals. Read the full story here.

With the new school year and upcoming fall sports season approaching, Western Missouri Medical Center’s sports medicine physicians encourage parents of high school athletes to schedule an echocardiogram screening for their athlete with their pre-participation physical. Read the full story here.

ALTON – As a commitment to workplace safety, Ameren Illinois has equipped 239 of its trucks with automated external defibrillators across central and southern Illinois, including 11 in the Alton area. Read the full story here.

DEERFIELD, Wis., July 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Cardiac Science announced today that the Boston Public Schools will purchase Powerheart® G5 automated external defibrillators (AEDs) to update and expand the district’s AED program covering school buildings and school sports. Read the full story here.

A cardiac arrest survivor from Scunthorpe has been reunited with the paramedic that saved his life. David Lines, 39, was putting his bins out in April 2015 when he suddenly collapsed and stopped breathing. Read the full story here.

LIMERICK >> A 56-year-old man received CPR during a cardiac arrest in Limerick Township on July 1, along with the application of an automated external defibrillation, during a call that triggered the county’s new PulsePoint Respond mobile application. Read the full story here.

A local non-profit group has launched an ambitious fundraising campaign with the aim of having all London secondary schools equipped with automated external defibrillator (AED) machines by the end of the year. The campaign, launched publicly earlier this week by Dad Club London, a registered non-profit comprised of more than 3,000 local fathers, is looking [Read More...]

MOBILE, AL (WALA) – The organization, Heart for Athletes, is on an important mission to protect young people from sudden cardiac arrest. The organization was started in 2014 by the friends and family of Sam Cockrell, from Daphne, AL. In 2013, at the age of 16, Sam was a seemingly healthy elite triathlete who unexpectedly [Read More...]

In A Heartbeat President Mike Papale served as a guest on The Greg Herenda Radio Show. The show aired on Saturday, July 1, 2017 at noon. Greg Herenda is the Head Men’s Basketball Coach at Fairleigh Dickinson University and has served in that role for the past 4 seasons. He led the Knights to [Read More...]

THOMASVILLE, N.C. — Imagine driving down the highway and seeing a group of people pulled off to the side of the road with someone in distress. Would you stop? A local firefighter and his ER nurse wife helped to save a man’s life last weekend on Highway 52, not far from King. The man was [Read More...]

SIX out of 10 patients with inherited ‘silent killer’ heart conditions are being put in danger of unnecessary early death because GPs are misdiagnosing them with anxiety, according to new research. Read the full story here.

Doug Close, a 63-year-old Durango native, was in the middle of a game of pickleball at the Durango Community Recreation Center on the evening of June 21 when he started to feel faint. “I went down and put my hands on my knees, and all I remember was seeing a (fuzzy) black and white TV [Read More...]

High-drama sports moments may bring to mind the Cubs’ World Series win in 2016, or Michael Jordan’s last-second shot playing the Jazz in 1998. It probably doesn’t bring to mind a seniors’ softball league in Lincoln, Calif. Read the full story here.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – Today we’re learning more about a common, genetic heart condition that can lead to serious health problems if it goes untreated… we were joined by Dr. David Fermin, a cardiologist with Spectrum Health Medical Group! Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is the most common genetic cardiovascular disorder, and affects at least 1 in 500 people [Read More...]

Stan Fyfe was helping film a TV commercial at the Rooms To Go store in Riverchase this week when he heard a loud thud and turned to see a coworker lying on the floor by a light stand. Read the full story here.

The Sudden cardiac arrest survival rate in Peoria is nearly double the national average at 13 percent. Local health officials are working together to further improve the bottom line. Read the full story here.

Kenosha Unified School District stadiums and other athletic facilities will have new life-saving cardiac equipment through a gift from a Kenosha neurosurgeon and a local bank. Dr. Arvind Ahuja donated four AEDs — automated external defibrillators — to the school district, while Southport Bank donated three. Read the full story here.

WEYMOUTH – Walter Chipman said he had no warning signs or symptoms before going into cardiac arrest while shopping at the Park Avenue Market and Ace Hardware store in South Weymouth. Read the full story here.

ALLENSTOWN — A cardiac arrest survivor reunited with the New Hampshire crews that saved his life. Members of the Allenstown Police Department, Allenstown Fire Department, and Tri-Town Emergency Medical Services successfully resuscitated the man after he collapsed on June 13. Read the full story here.

DENVER — The American Heart Association is launching a new campaign that calls for training U.S. workers to respond appropriately to workplace cardiac emergencies and also for public access to AEDs, automated external defibrillators. The association announced it June 19 and released results from new surveys that indicate most American workers aren’t prepared to handle [Read More...]

If two Braselton police officers hadn’t acted quickly about a month ago, a teenage girl wouldn’t have lived to see June. On Monday, Solis joined Police Chief Terry Esco and Braselton’s mayor and council to honor officers Steve Folkers and Steve Kinard, who helped save a 17-year-old suffering a severe asthma attack. Read the full [Read More...]

CARRBORO – Kim Pete was hanging out with friends last weekend when her newly acquired CPR skills were put to the test. Peter “P.J.” Morcombe went into cardiac arrest around 11 p.m. June 10. Pete was walking back from the bathroom when she saw Morcombe had collapsed. Read the full story here.

The Long Beach Police Department has received three Automated External Defibrillators (AED) for their police cars thanks to a donation from the Fraternal Order of Police as part of a Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation grant, officials announced today. Read the full story here.

AKRON, Ohio — An officer and a safety communications technician were commended Friday after they helped save a baby’s life. According to Akron police, Safety Communications Technician Beth Johnson and Captain Dan Zampelli both assisted on May 31 when a one-month-old went into cardiac arrest. Read the full story here.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) — A suburban man is recovering after his daughter saved his life. She’s a trained nurse, but the job would have been much tougher if not for a theater owner who planned ahead. Read the full story here.

GARLAND, Box Elder County — It’s all in the name. From the “Hook & Ladder” special, to the gear on the wall and enough red to paint a fire truck — spend just a minute in any Firehouse Subs restaurant and you can tell right away honoring firefighters is a big deal to the sandwich [Read More...]

The Greg Holthaus Memorial Fund and the Hospital Sisters Health System St. Joseph’s Hospital in Highland have partnered up to help prevent the No. 1 killer of student athletes. To recognize National CPR and AED Awareness Week, the two organizations celebrated the “grand opening” of a new automatic external defibrillator machine June 2. Read the full [Read More...]

Drones could soon be dropping off packages at customers’ doors. But researchers in Sweden have drones in mind for a different, potentially lifesaving delivery: automated external defibrillators. Read the full story here.

Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is a leading cause of death and a major health problem in the United States, with more than 356,000 people suffering from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, according to the American Heart Association. Without immediate treatment, death can occur within minutes if the victim collapses, causing nine out of 10 victims [Read More...]

There’s no debate, AEDs and CPR save lives, but only if a trained individual is on hand to administer the life-saving measures. Agencies in Newberg are well aware of that and are taking steps to ensure that as many people as possible are prepared to save a life. Read the full story here.

Singapore — A new device, the size of a credit card and slightly thicker, is the latest tool that could improve the efforts of the public in saving the lives of cardiac arrest victims before an ambulance arrives. Read the full story here.

KENNEWICK, Wash. – Sudden cardiac arrest claims thousands of lives in this country every year, but knowing what to do to help during a medical emergency can change that trend. That’s why the American Red Cross, Northwest Region, is urging everyone to learn CPR. Majority of the time cardiac arrest happens at home. So the [Read More...]

Three officers from the Dalton Police Department are being credited with providing critical care to a man an unconscious man who stopped breathing on Tuesday night. As the first responders on scene, the three officers were able to provide CPR to the patient until an ambulance arrived. The patient was breathing with a normal heart rate when [Read More...]

Every year more than 350-thousand Americans suffer cardiac arrest in a location other than a hospital, and for every one of them, their survival depends on someone stepping up to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation immediately. According to the American Heart Association, almost 90 percent of people whose heart suddenly stops will die because they don’t get [Read More...]

Two Island Air flight attendants and an off-duty Moloka‘i police officer were recognized by Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa for recently coming to the aid of a woman in need of medical attention. Mayor Arakawa honored the three individuals as he declared June 1-7, 2017 as “CPR / AED Awareness Week” to highlight the importance of [Read More...]

IRVINE, Calif. (KABC) — Irvine resident Stephanie Gavshon was reunited with the Orange County Fire Authority paramedics responsible for saving her life after a sudden cardiac arrest six months ago. Read the full story here.

Since February is American Heart Month, now is a good time to learn what you can do as a parent to help keep your athlete’s heart healthy. Before sports participation even begins, all athletes should have a pre-participation exam by their primary care physician to determine readiness to play and uncover any conditions that may [Read More...]

DRAPER — As the old adage goes, when the time to act arrives, the time to prepare has passed. No one knows this better than 14-year-old Porter Lewis, a student at Corner Canyon High School, and the school administrators and staff that may well have saved his life. Read the full story here.

Cardiac arrest patients who get cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from a bystander at the scene may have better survival odds even when an ambulance takes a long time to arrive, a Danish study suggests. Read the full story here.

On Wednesday night, Donovan Catholic High School wrestler Brandon Gonzalez was revived by a group of fast-acting coaches, trainers and spectators after collapsing during a tri-match with Lakewood and Toms River North in Lakewood, N.J. Read the full story here.

The folks at CM Tucker Lumber in Pageland, S.C., made an investment in an automated external defibrillator (AED) program 11 years ago. Back in November, that decision paid off handsomely when employees used one of the company’s new Powerheart® G5 AEDs to save a co-worker’s life. Read the full story here.

Cindy Kuhn’s son is alive because his best friend learned how to perform CPR during health classes at Novi High School. Now all Michigan students will receive instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation — thanks to legislation approved in December. Read the full story here.

On Dec. 7, 2016, my 28-year-old son Nich was snow boarding at Big Sky Resort. As he was coming off a lift, he collapsed due to what is called “sudden cardiac death.“′ He needed to be resuscitated by ski patrol three different times on the mountain, tobogganed down, then airlifted to Deaconess hospital in Bozeman. [Read More...]

We commend Michael Andreola for his insights in “What to Look for in Nonprofits” (Dec. 27 Perspectives). The Sudden Cardiac Arrest Foundation, a national nonprofit based in Pittsburgh, is a lean, effective organization that works relentlessly to raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and help save lives. Sudden cardiac arrest — when the heart unexpectedly stops beating [Read More...]

What is sudden cardiac arrest? During a sudden cardiac arrest, the heart is no longer able to pump blood to the rest of the body, and in over 90% of victims, death occurs– abruptly and without warning. Read the full story here.

Dear Doctor: A woman in the mall near our home collapsed and wasn’t breathing. A shopper performed CPR until the paramedics showed up. Later, my friends and I realized that none of us could have helped her. Should we get trained in CPR? Read the full article here.

On October 31, 2016, In A Heartbeat donated $6,000.00 to the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center located at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, MA. “I am proud to say we are able to make our first donation for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy research to Tufts Medical Center,” said Mike Papale. “Dr. Maron and his staff are some of the [Read More...]

You’ve seen signs posted in public places that an AED is on the premises. AED stands for automated external defibrillator, or, more accurately, semi-automated since a human operator is needed. Did you know that the purpose of an AED is to stop the heart, rather than start it? More on that later. First, let’s clarify [Read More...]

Inside every person, there are approximately three billion base pairs of chemical compounds that make up one’s genetic code. A single misspelling among these results in a genetic mutation– the location of which determines its impact. Sickle cell anemia, cystic fibrosis or colour-blindness would be jut a few such examples. As renowned running writer David Epstein phrases it [Read More...]

Any game, win or lose, is supposed to end in cheers. For Deleye Kamara, his game ended with a bloodcurdling scream. “My eyes got dark and I fell to my knees and I started screaming,” said Kamara, student athlete. Read the full story here.

July 03–PEORIA — A new app can help increase the survival rates in cases of sudden cardiac arrest by utilizing smart phones and bystander’s help. On Thursday, Advanced Medical Transport of Central Illinois launched PulsePoint, a free smartphone app that notifies users of those nearby in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR. Read the full [Read More...]

Just months after Governor John Bel Edwards signed a bill to require high schools to keep automated external defibrillators on their campuses, an Acadiana teen proved how important they are. Read the full story here.

It’s something you hope to never need to use, but could save a life if it were to be needed. This spring, the York Twp. Volunteer Fire Department, with the assistance of donations for OhioHealth and Baird Brothers Co. Foundation, provided two automated external defibrillator (AED) devices to the Trimble and Nelsonville youth leagues. Read [Read More...]

It started out as just another typical summer day — morning practice for the Catholic High boys soccer team so the players could enjoy the rest of the day and avoid the oppressive South Louisiana summer heat. Steven Champ had just returned from work and dropped off his son, also Steven, at practice and was [Read More...]

Men are at a greater risk for cardiac arrest, compared to women. At least one in nine men will experience cardiac arrest before the age of 70, compared to one in 30 women. At the age of 45, men have an 11 percent higher lifetime risk of cardiac arrest, compared to only a three percent [Read More...]

Michael and Judy Upton were planning to have a weekend in Kirksville for a family reunion. After spending most of Friday traveling around the area with family, the Bloomington, Ill. couple’s evening turned hectic after Michael Upton went into cardiac arrest in a parking lot near La Pachanga Mexican Restaurant in La Plata, Mo. Read [Read More...]

MINNEAPOLIS (KMSP) – Sudden cardiac arrest victims who used to get pronounced dead at the scene can live and thrive, according to a study by the University of Minnesota Health. Read the full story here.

It was a normal day of early spring at 24 Hour Fitness. In the front of the facility, rows of clients of all ages, led by the gym’s optimistic mood music, were expending calories on treadmills and stationary bikes, while in the back a mostly masculine crowd was studiously working on developing their muscle mass. [Read More...]

Ervin Motor Co. has donated an AED (automated external defibrillator) training system to Vinton Shellsburg Community School District as part of a National Automobile Dealers Charitable Foundation Program. Read the full story here.

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – Earlier this month, five freshmen boys at Ravenscroft School in Raleigh were having lunch and witnessed another patron collapse. The boys, who were trained in CPR during health class at school, immediately performed team CPR and were able to save the person’s life. Read the full story here.

ANDOVER — One minute, Neal McGovern was pedaling close to 150 rotations-per-minute on a stationary bike in what he says was his 35th spin class of the year. The next minute, he was falling to the floor, his heart not beating. Read the full story here.

Just before 2 p.m. on Saturday in the town of Farmington, State Police responded to a two-car crash that was caused by a possible medical condition of one of the drivers. Alfred Rossi, 67, of Canandaigua, was driving southbound on State Route 332 when he crossed over the grass median and struck 52-year-old Elizabeth Barrett’s [Read More...]

GREENSBORO, NC – Some of North Carolina’s basketball elite will gather in Greensboro on Saturday. It will look like any other fast-paced pick-up game, with star players battling for the best score. The real goal is to help save lives. Read the full story here.

NORWICH — More than 140 runners arrived at Norwich Free Academy on Saturday to take part in the 9th Annual Larry Pontbriant Memorial 5K Run, a race that has raised money to install dozens of automated external defibrillator, or AEDs, in schools and at athletic fields across the region. Read the full story here.

In response to dramatic police body cam footage showing the life-saving actions of two Georgia police officers after a man had a heart attack, a city council voted unanimously Thursday to have all of its police patrol cars equipped with the device the officers used to revive the man. Read the full story here.

WASHINGTON — Basketball was Tairik Johnson’s life until his life almost ended. Now, the 17-year-old Baltimore youth is looking for a new path. And he has the chance to do so thanks to nearly a dozen people who did the right things at just the right time to save his life. Read the full story [Read More...]

Last July, Irene Sample was walking with Eunique Latchison, her great granddaughter to pick up some used books to donate to her church. Once they arrived back home, it became obvious that the heat of the day had taken a toll on her, so she asked Eunique to get her something to drink out of [Read More...]

Five parks across Belfast are offering a better chance of survival to heart attack victims after being fitted with automatic external defibrillators (AED) which will be available for members of the public to use in an emergency. The AED’s can be used without specific training – they tell the user exactly what to do when [Read More...]

As I watch many students and parents gearing up for graduation season, ordering caps and gowns and planning celebrations, I can’t help but feel robbed of the opportunity to share these special moments with my daughter, Morgan. My daughter, a star athlete and one of the warmest, most loving people you ever could’ve met, lost her [Read More...]

PLAIN CITY, Utah – Several coaches at Fremont High school are being called heroes. They teamed up to help revive a football player when a medical problem sent him to the ground. Read the full story here.

As the City and County of Honolulu celebrates National Emergency Medical Services Week, a Honolulu man thanked the Good Samaritans and first responders who saved his life. On Feb. 20, Phillip Tan, 51, was playing basketball at the Nuuanu YMCA when he started to feel dizzy and collapsed. Bystanders who rushed to his aid realized [Read More...]

Sept. 15, 2006, was an exciting day for Matt Nader, an offensive tackle on his high school football team. His family cheered as his team battled its No. 1 rival. Then, in an instant, Nader’s life changed. He collapsed, unconscious and with no pulse. His heart had stopped. His parents, both physicians, performed CPR until [Read More...]

Scientists have come up with yet another amazing discovery. A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University has developed a non-invasive 3D virtual heart to help doctors determine whether a patient faces the risk of a life-threatening arrhythmia and needs a defibrillator implant. Read the full story here.

WALLINGFORD — Mike Papale’s life was saved 10 years ago by a well-trained EMT, four other emergency workers and one automated external defibrillator when he suffered sudden cardiac arrest at age 17, in the prime of his high school basketball career. Papale, now 27, has made it his life’s work to make sure others will [Read More...]

MANCHESTER — When the Manchester Knights and CT Knights youth sports program accept a special donation next week, they’ll be receiving the first of hopefully many life-saving machines from a new Connecticut charity. Knights leaders, including President Christine Burkhard and Vice President Tylon Smith, will receive an AED machine Tuesday evening from In A Heartbeat, [Read More...]

On April 16, 2016, In A Heartbeat President Mike Papale will be the guest speaker at the 4th Annual Michael Vincent Sage Dragonheart Foundation Fundraiser. The fundraiser will take place from 2-5 PM at Two Roads Brewery in Stratford, CT. The mission of this foundation is to prevent death from sudden cardiac arrest. For more [Read More...]

The Papales have always been synonymous with basketball. The sport has bonded the Wallingford family over the years and now it’s helping them heal. Eight years ago, at the height of his high school career, Mike Papale III went into cardiac arrest and nearly lost his life, but was saved by a automated external defibrillator.